Staffordshire-Stafford-1788 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20825

Map Date:

? 1788

Repository reference:

Staffordshire RO D.4080/12, page 13

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Stafford

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ921232

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9122

Map title:

'Plan of Stafford and lands adjacent.'

Comments on map:

Photograph of c.1930, reduced, possibly from 1:3168 to 1:7920. Dated 1788. Attached to a deed or similar document: purpose unclear.

Scale:

1:3168

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

60 x 45

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries: Pictorial.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Staffs D.4080/12 (photo); BOL G.A.Staffs c.20/L3 [1969: in Stafford Maps, Local History Source Book L3, Staffs CC, 1969].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Monastic ruins form background to title.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Scale surrounded by drawing instruments.

Map material:

parchment

Ordnance Survey's

1878-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560